After All That, Nick Kyrgios Isn't In The NBA All-Star Celebrity Game

Last fall, tennis’s rowdiest underperformer Nick Kyrgios said he was pulling out of the Rotterdam Open, an ATP 500 tournament that begins in four days, so he could compete in the NBA’s Celebrity Game during All-Star Weekend. This struck me as wise for a few reasons. First, late in last year’s season, when Kyrgios…

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Italian Guy Tries To Scheme His Way Into Hospital To Watch Soccer Game From Window, Fails

Most of the time when someone pretends to be sick so as to gain admission to a hospital, it’s to finagle their way into a prescription for drugs to slake an addiction. Yesterday, one Italian man tried something similar, though his addiction is to soccer and his satisfaction could be found right there outside the…

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Cut The Cord With Your Favorite Bluetooth Earbuds, Now Just $24

If you haven’t experienced the simple pleasures of wireless headphones, the reader-favorite Anker SoundBuds are on sale for $24 right now, or about $6 less than usual. I used these for months until I got a set of AirPods for Christmas, and they’re fantastic.

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Goodbye To Javier López, The Giants' Unsung Badass

The San Francisco Giants won three World Series between 2010 and 2014, and each was nerve-wracking in its own way. In 2010 they qualified for the postseason on the final day, and had an inordinate amount of playoff games decided by a single run; in 2012 they went down 0-2 in the NLDS and 1-3 in the NLCS before winning…

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Board overseeing proposed Las Vegas NFL stadium to meet (Yahoo Sports)

FILE - In this Dec. 24, 2016, file photo, Oakland Raiders owner Mark Davis waits for the team's NFL football game against the Indianapolis Colts in Oakland, Calif. The Raiders' new stadium in Las Vegas could literally be walking distance from a few of the citys dozens of sports books. The bottom-line explanation for this move speaks as much about priorities in Vegas as in the NFL: Its about cold, hard cash. The new stadium will be funded by $750 million from the county, another $650 million from either billionaire Sheldon Adelson or another investor and the remaining $500 million from the Raiders and the league. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)

The board that oversees a proposed Las Vegas NFL stadium is set to meet publicly Thursday for the first time since an instrumental backer of the project pulled out the deal. The meeting of the stadium authority board comes as questions remain over the funding for the facility following the withdrawal of casino magnate Sheldon Adelson and his multimillion-dollar pledge toward the $1.9 billion, 65,000-seat domed stadium that could house the Oakland Raiders. Adelson and his family had pledged $650 million and the Raiders $500 million, with the stadium authority putting up $750 million in Las Vegas tax revenues.


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